Portraits of Thanksgiving maskers from 1910 to 1915 are preserved in the Library of Congress's online archives. They come from the 39,744 negatives from the Bain News Service.

Yale and Princeton popularized Thanksgiving Day football games in 1876. Department store Gimbels, in a move predating Black Friday by about a hundred years, decided that Thanksgiving Day was the perfect time for Santa to make his yearly debut.